Alison Philp is a Scottish artist whose practice moves between painting, drawing, and writing. At the centre of her practice is a belief that the act of making is itself a form of knowledge and that sustained attention to the natural world, pursued through mark-making over time, produces something that cannot be arrived at any other way. Often beginning from close observation of gardens or forest edges, her drawings evolve as traces of time spent looking, thinking, and reworking; records of a prolonged encounter. Watercolour is used both spontaneously and accumulatively, building soft, transparent layers that hold a history of making. Painting is a slow conversation with material in which ambiguity and imperfection become essential. Writing is also integral to her practice, sharing the quality of attention, slow, repeated, sitting with uncertainty until something true emerges. She studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and completed an MFA in Art and Humanities at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee (2018).